"So, Rinpoche," she asked, "if these grand old living Buddha-lamas are as perfectly enlightened, awakened, omniscient, skillful, powerful, and compassionate as we think they are, why don’t they just wake us up from the sleep of delusion?" "Who’s asleep?" the master replied.
i want to be awakend, and i will not stop untill i am, and wont stop even when i an, my buddha will come, all of our inner buddhas will come we just have to persevere,and love, and practice. =)
The gurus say that we are already awakened, if we would only recognise it. The problem is that it will probably hurt. It's one thing to desire enlightenment, it is another thing to actually go through it. It will probably be very painful seeing your mind die (or thinking that it is dying because one is too close to the mind and body. One may go insane if one is not prepared.) You don't need to become awakened, you just need to become more aware. So become more aware.
If you achieve enlightenment while drinking milk, does it make the milk come out of your nose? What about soy milk?
The Buddha was an individuation of life. We are all individuations of life, each in a body. Yet there is no self, no ego, for all life is one. Each is a facet of a diamond or a leaf on a tree. There is only one diamond, there is only one tree. To awaken is to realise the illusion of self and separation. This is not just on the intellectual or cerebral level. It is to realise it deep within the psyche, that is to take "yourself" the waking consciousness, into the nothingness within, that "you" realise that "you" are only nothingness. In that nothingness, there is the mystery of the infnite, where "you" become everything. No self, no separation, just oneness. Stilness, peace and compassion. Peace and love Jnanic
You will not go insane to reach enlightenment. Many people are scared to loose the ego because they think they will be a vegetable or not be able to function. This will make it harder for you to become buddha. Jnanic is correct, all life is one. Everyone has had small glimpses of enlightenment. The ego gives you false hopes and false fears.
I went to this college where everybody meditated and I remember times when I would have really intense meditations and get all proud of it and thn I would go to the cafeteria and talk to people and everyone was at least as aware as I was regardless of their knowledge of it as everything I was would be reflected back in others so to that point I have discovered something and this is it - there is no factual or discriminatory delimiter available to the rational mind as regards the separation of inner and outer which is to say that inner and outer cannot be delimited and so as such whatever ones own wakefullness so also the wakefullness of the entire world. A more awake person demands a more awake response automatically. There's no point dreaming about being awake either, unless it serves to proper you to wakefullness, otherwise most people's dreams of wakefullness just leads to their deeper slumber.
I really am at a loss on how to understand this. Jnanic also said that "you are only nothingness". If you're one, then you're not nothing. If you posess oneness of a part of something, then you do not possess or contain or are a part of nothingness. If you are nothingness, then you can't be a part of something. You either are or aren't. You're either nothing or something. Please help me to understand how this is possible! HTML: HTML: HTML:
Picture a rock......the rock will erode and soon be gravel, the it will turn to soil; this soil will then become part of a plant which is then ingested and become part of the being or animal which ingested it, and it will continue in this manner forever, ever changing it's form and becoming part of somthing else, This all taking place in the "now'...so, If given an eternity to do this it will have an infinite possobility to go through the stage of being a part of everything, therefore it has now met the goal of being "one" for this rock Is everything. But the rock is also a part of Sangsara which is the world of illusion, Therefore in truth it has now met the Requirement of being nothing. So at once this Rock is Everything, yet Nothing. I hope this helps you to understand..... In eternal love and light, Robert
thats a beautiful answer...who is asleep???...get teh questioner to question who they are, or rather are not.
i am not wise. i just want to live in a world where people don't go arround screwing everything up for each other. i want to be someone who doesn't screw everything up for everyone else. i must be very selfish to want this. i am not wise. =^^= .../\...
